On 5 December 2013, the European Commission launched a public consultation inviting stakeholders to share their views on the possible reform of EU copyright (the "Consultation").

On 28 November 2013, the European Commission published a proposed Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of undisclosed know-how and business information against misappropriation (COM (2013) 813 final) (the "Proposal") (See, VBB on Belgian Business Law, Volume 2013, No. 11, p. 12, available at www.vbb.com).

On 18 February 2014, the French Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation) quashed a judgment of the Paris Court of Appeal and an earlier decision of the French Competition Authority ("FCA"), which imposed fines on construction companies Pradeau Morin and Degaine of € 4.5 million and of € 536,000, respectively.

In 2014, under the terms of a promotional offer, the defendant, a manufacturer of the diet product A-Vitalkost, offered pharmacies a 30% discount on a one-off direct order of 12 to 90 cans of the product.

In a judgment of 26 February 2013, the German Regional Court of Cologne rejected an action for damages in the amount of more than € 1.1 billion.

In a decision of 19 December 2012, the German Federal Constitutional Court confirmed that the obligation to pay interests on fines imposed on a company by a decision of a cartel authority, as laid down in the German Act Against Restraints of Competition, is compatible with the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The Italian Council of State handed down its judgment upholding a fine of around € 10.6 million imposed by the ICA on the pharmaceutical company Pfizer.

On 3 December 2014, the Spanish Supreme Court handed down a judgment in the Pfizer dual-pricing case, ruling that special pricing legislation in Spain does not prevent the application of the competition laws.

On 20 December 2012, the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal handed down its judgment on Tesco’s appeal against an earlier Office of Fair Trading decision concerning dairy products retail pricing in the UK.

On 23 October 2018, the English Court of Appeal issued a judgment in a licence dispute involving Standard Essential Patents pitting Unwired Planet, a US-based patent assertion entity, against Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications company.

Following the Court's annulment of the 31 May 2017 decision, the BCA reopened the case and adopted a new decision on 26 April 2018.

For purposes of the Law, SMEs are defined by reference to Article 1:24, §1 of the new Belgian Companies and Associations Code.

By way of background, the Finnish Competition Authority imposed fines on seven companies for participation in a cartel in the asphalt market in Finland.

Contrary to Portuguese law, the application of Luxembourg law would not have resulted in the termination of the pending lawsuits.

On 12 December 2018, the EU General Court dismissed the application for annulment which Canal + SA had brought against a European Commission decision that had made commitments offered by Paramount Pictures Ltd ...

Hence, the ECJ found that the German law infringed both the InfoSoc Directive and the Enforcement Directive.

The Commission had already accepted and made binding commitments offered by Paramount Pictures in July 2016.

In the present case, the patents were neither standard essential nor non-avoidable.

On 21 August 2025, the European Union and the United States published a Joint Statement (JS) "on a United States-European framework on an agreement on reciprocal...

Of immediate relevance for third countries is the APF's assault against "foreign governments' free-riding off American investment in innovation".